In honor of Prince Fielder and the Tigers, let's use some baseball terminology to sum up the performances of Detroit Red Wings Jimmy Howard and Pavel Datsyuk in the final event of the NHL All-Star skills competition.

Howard batted .600 in the elimination shootout Saturday but Datsyuk was saddled with an 0-fer.

Howard, the Red Wings goaltender, stopped three of the five shots he faced in the penalty-shot competition while Datsyuk was stoned in his only attempt at scoring.

After allowing goals by Buffalo's Jason Pominville and Pittsburgh's Kris Letang on the first two shots he faced, Howard stopped Ottawa's Erik Karlsson and Vancouver's Daniel Sundin before getting revenge on Pominville by eliminating him from the event in a rematch.

Pominville scored on a low wrist shot under Howard's glove and Letang slipped a backhand between Howard's right skate and the goal post.

But Howard rebounded by stopping Karlsson with his right pad, Sedin hit the post and then Howard used his right pad again to stifle Pominville.

Pavel Datsyuk

Datsyuk was eliminated right out of the blocks when he failed to score against New York Rangers' goalie Henrik Lundqvist.

Before Datsyuk shot, Montreal goaltender Carey Price --- who was in the net at the other end of the ice and was wearing a microphone --- offered this commentary: "I'm glad he's going the other way."

After Lundqvist used his stick and right pad to stop Datsyuk, Price weighed in with "Hank's pretty good at this, too."

Datsyuk and Howard were both playing for Team Chara, which lost 21-12 to Team Alfredsson.